{"id":224582,"date":"2025-11-05T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/this-awesome-periodic-table-shows-the-origins-of-every-atom-in-your-body"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:03:26","slug":"this-awesome-periodic-table-shows-the-origins-of-every-atom-in-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/this-awesome-periodic-table-shows-the-origins-of-every-atom-in-your-body","title":{"rendered":"This Awesome Periodic Table Shows The Origins of Every Atom in Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-awesome-periodic-table-shows-the-origins-of-every-atom-in-your-body.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s something to think about: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2013\/jan\/27\/20-human-body-facts-science\">average adult human<\/a> is made up of-1 (7 octillion) atoms, and most of them are hydrogen \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-awesome-periodic-table-shows-the-origins-of-every-atom-in-your-body\/physicists-have-created-a-new-form-of-hydrogen\">most common element in the Universe<\/a>, produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/big-bang\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Big Bang<\/a> 13.8 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of those atoms were forged by ancient stars merging and exploding billions of years after the formation of the Universe, and a tiny amount can be attributed to cosmic rays \u2014 high-energy radiation that mostly originates from somewhere outside the Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>As astronomer Carl Sagan once said in an episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage\"><em>Cosmos<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s something to think about: the average adult human is made up of-1 (7 octillion) atoms, and most of them are hydrogen \u2014 the most common element in the Universe, produced by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. The rest of those atoms were forged by ancient stars merging and exploding billions of years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}